Lunch pack



J. scHEEL LUNCH PACK Nov. 13, 1951 Filed Nov. 26, 1946 VWF/4 Patented Nov. 13, 1951 OFFICE LUNCH PACK Juli-us Scheel, Houston, Tex., assignor of one-halt toManuel Blanco P., Houston, Tex.

Application November ze, 194s, serial Nu. 712,461

A 1 This invention relates to a lunch pack and has particular relation to a portable lunch pack.

An object of the present invention is to provide a device of the character described having s'eparate'containers for different kinds of` food which, when assembled, are completely'closed with an outer casing for maintaining the assembled containers therein as -a unit and by meansof which they may be readily transported. T 'It is another object of the present invention to provide a lunch pack of the character. de scribed which is provided with an oven for containing a heati'ngunitwhereby heat may be circulated entirely about the assembled unit of food containers, so that they will be heated uniformly when desired.

` "It is a further object of the present invention to provide a lunch pack of the character described wherein the food containers are so'assembled as a unit that they may be lifted, as a unit, out of the surrounding casing when it is desired to render the food in the various containers accessible..

The lunch pack herein described has Abeen designed more particularly for outdoor use for hunting, picnicking and similar uses.

Other objects and advantages will be apparent from the following specification which is illustrated by the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure 1 is a vertical, sectional view of the assembled pack.

Figure 2 is a fragmentary, vertical, sectional view of the upper end thereof.

Figure 3 is a top plan view of the food container unit.

Figure 4 is a fragmentary, top plan view of the grip member, or bail, of said unit.

Figure 5 is a cross-sectional view taken on the line 5-5 of Figure 1.

Referring now more particularly to the drawings wherein like numerals of referencedesignate the same parts in each of the figures, the numeral I designates the oven portion o! the outer casing. It may be of any shape but,v in the present illustration, it is shown-as cylindrical.

It has a number of inwardly projecting supporting lugs 2, spaced from the lower end thereof, three of said lugs being shown in the present illustration, although any selected number may be employed. They are spaced apart around kthe oven.

The oven `walls are provided with one or more openings 3 for draft purposes and for access in lighting the stove, or other heating unit, 4 located within the oven.

1 claim. (015126-261) Extending across the bottom of the oven there is a plate 5 which is removably secured in place.

For that purpose it' may have the marginal 11p-'- standing lugs, as 6, provided with conventional J-slots to receive the studs 'I which project inwardly from the wall of the oven.

Mounted on the plate 5 there is a pan shaped support 8 for the stove 4. This support is of suitable thickness and has the flexible upstanding fingers 9 secured thereto which grip the stove. 4 to hold vit in place.

The oven forms a part of the casing walls and extending upwardly from it and suitably secured to it are the enclosing walls I0 which, in the present illustration, are formed double with a layer of asbestos between them for heat retain#- ing purposes. f

The entire lunch pack, except for the asbestos, may be made of metal of any selected type, preferably, aluminum. The casing has a top, or cover, II which may be hinged thereto at one side by the hinge I2 and which is provided at the other side with a latch I3 for maintaining the cover closed.

This cover II is provided with `a suitable grip member, or bail, I I suitably secured to it by means of which the lunch pack may be readily carried about.

Mounted on the lugs 2, and preferably countersunk therein, there is a removable pan I5 of relative thick metal and secured to the opposite sides of this pan and upstanding therefrom, there are the straps I6.

Hinged, at one end, to the upper end of one strap IB there is a hand bail, or grip member, I'I which is of an inverted U-sha'pe. The other end of the bail I'I is'outwardly turned and provided with a T-slot I8.

The upper end of the other strap I 6 has the T-head I9 thereon which may be inserted through the slot I8 and moved inwardly and thereby interlocked with the corresponding end of the bail I'I.

There are the food containers 20. These containers are lor=simi1ar shape and their upper ends are ared so that they may be nested on each other in a unit, as shown in Figure 1. The lower container of the nest seats in the pan I5.

When nested together a removable lid 2l is tted onto the top container. When the grip member, or bail, I'I, is latched in place one end of it clamps against the margin of the lid 2| and the other end thereof clamps against the margin of said lid on the other side so as to hold 3 the lid firmly inplace and to hold the containers nested securely together.

The food containers 20 and the lid 2| form a unit which may be used independently of the oven and outer casing.

As will be noted in Figures 1 and 3, the grip member, or bail, Il is provided with a rib 22, formed from the material thereof and when the top, or cover, H, of the casing is latched in place it bears against said rib 22 so as to hold the container unit firmly in place in the pan l5.

It will be noted that the lugs 2 are spaced apart and that the container unit is spaced inwardly from the casing all the way around. Hot air from the stove 4 may therefore pass up between the l lugs 2 and all around the container unit' so that the food in the different containers will be unii formly heated from the heat of the stove.

If the food is hot when the containers are nested together it will be protected from the outside temperatures and will remain in a heated condition for a reasonable period of time and it :may not becomenecessary to reheat it but `if it should be desired to reheat the food the stove 6 may be lighted and the reheating process quickly accomplished.

The vdrawings and description are illustrative merely While the broad principle of the invention will be dened by the appended claim.

What I claim is:

A lunch pack comprising, an outer easing having an oven at its lower end and a hinged cover at its upper end, spaced inside supports at the top of the oven, a pan on said supports, a nest of similar food containers one above another and the lower container beingseated in said pan, said nest being spaced inwardly from the casing to provide a circulating space between the nest and casing, said space being con-i nected with the oven, spaced upstanding members connected at their lower ends to the pan and extending into said circulating space, and handle means connecting the upper ends ci' said members and engaging the upper container to retain the nest seated in the pan, said handle means extending above the nest and engaging said cover to retain said containers in nested po- A sition and said pan on said supports:

JULIUS SCHEEL.

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